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Fluid Dynamics of Particles, Drops, and Bubbles by Eric Loth 9780521814362
RRP: £79.99£69.22This book is a modern presentation of multiphase flow, from basic principles to state-of-the-art research. It explains dispersed fluid dynamics for bubbles, drops, or solid particles, incorporating detailed theory, experiments, simulations, and models... -
Intermittency in Turbulent Flows by J. C. Vassilicos 9780521792219
RRP: £110.00£93.23The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. These features affect scalings and lead to deviations from Gaussian behaviour. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of... -
The Dynamics of Fluidized Particles by Roy Jackson 9780521781220
RRP: £129.00£113.82Recent years have seen major progress in the development of equations to describe the motion of fluid-particle mixtures and their application to a limited range of problems. With rapid advances in numerical methods and computing power we are now... -
The Earth's Variable Rotation: Geophysical Causes and Consequences by Kurt Lambeck 9780521673303
RRP: £71.99£65.47Astronomers have long noted that the Earth does not rotate uniformly about an axis fixed in the planet, that both the length-of-day and the direction of the rotation axis vary periodically and irregularly by small amounts. These variations are an... -
Rarefied Gas Dynamics: From Basic Concepts to Actual Calculations by Carlo Cercignani 9780521650083
RRP: £110.00£88.31This book presents the concepts, methods and applications of kinetic theory to rarefied gas dynamics. After introducing the basic tools, problems in plane geometry are treated using approximation techniques (perturbation and numerical methods). These... -
Dynamic Fracture Mechanics by L. B. Freund 9780521629225
RRP: £39.99£36.59This volume emphasizes fundamental concepts, both on the development of mathematical models of fracture phenomena and on the analysis of these models. Cases involving stress waves impinging on cracks, tractions suddenly applied to the faces of cracks,... -
Viscous Flow by Hilary Ockendon 9780521452441
RRP: £43.99£38.63Many of the topics in inviscid fluid dynamics are not only vitally important mechanisms in everyday life but they are also readily observable without any need for instrumentation. It is therefore stimulating when the mathematics that emerges when these... -
Numerical Simulation of Unsteady Flows and Transition to Turbulence by Olivier Pironneau 9780521416184
£120.00Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Evolution of Phase Transitions: A Continuum Theory by Rohan Abeyaratne 9780521380515
RRP: £42.99£36.19This 2006 work began with the author's exploration of the applicability of the finite deformation theory of elasticity when various standard assumptions such as convexity of various energies or ellipticity of the field equations of equilibrium are... -
Theory of Shell Structures by C. R. Calladine 9780521369459
RRP: £61.99£56.51Shell structures form key components in a very wide range of engineering enterprise. The theory of shell structures is an old and large subject, with a huge literature. However, this book is not a compilation of results from the past. Instead, it is an... -
Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows by Alex D. D. Craik 9780521368292
RRP: £54.99£49.36Wave Interactions and Fluid Flows is a coherent, up-to-date and comprehensive account of theory and experiment on wave-interaction phenomena, both in fluids at rest and in shear flows. On the one hand, this includes water waves, internal waves, their... -
A Physical Introduction to Suspension Dynamics by Elisabeth Guazzelli 9780521193191
RRP: £106.00£94.80Understanding the behaviour of particles suspended in a fluid has many important applications across a range of fields, including engineering and geophysics. Comprising two main parts, this book begins with the well-developed theory of particles in... -
Turbulence Structure and Vortex Dynamics by J. C. R. Hunt 9780521175128
RRP: £43.99£38.14The modern understanding of turbulence is that it is a collection of weakly correlated vortical motions, which, despite their intermittent and chaotic distribution over a wide range of space and time scales, actually consist of local characteristic... -
Computational Continuum Mechanics by Ahmed A. Shabana 9780521174381
RRP: £37.99£31.31This book presents the nonlinear theory of continuum mechanics and demonstrates its use in developing nonlinear computer formulations for large displacement dynamic analysis. Basic concepts used in continuum mechanics are presented and used to develop... -
Mechanics of Solids and Materials by Robert Asaro 9780521166119
RRP: £59.99£50.85Mechanics of Solids and Materials intends to provide a modern and integrated treatment of the foundations of solid mechanics as applied to the mathematical description of material behavior. The 2006 book blends both innovative (large strain, strain rate,... -
Intermittency in Turbulent Flows by J. C. Vassilicos 9780521159425
RRP: £41.99£36.19The dynamics of many nonlinear systems gravitate around a few common central themes: intermittency, order/coherence and disorder. These features affect scalings and lead to deviations from Gaussian behaviour. Intermittency may be the universal outcome of... -
Buoyancy Effects in Fluids by J. S. Turner 9780521297264
RRP: £74.99£63.30The phenomena treated in this book all depend on the action of gravity on small density differences in a non-rotating fluid. The author gives a connected account of the various motions which can be driven or influenced by buoyancy forces in a stratified... -
Ocean Acoustic Tomography by Walter H. Munk 9780521115360
RRP: £65.99£59.42The problem of ocean acoustic tomography is to infer from precise measurements of travel time, or other properties of acoustic propagation, the state of the ocean traversed by a sound field. Tomography takes advantage of two facts: that travel time and... -
Non-linear Vibrations by G. Schmidt 9780521113229
RRP: £50.99£43.42This book expounds the theory of non-linear vibrations, a topic of great interest at present because of its many applications to important fields in physics and engineering. After introducing chapters giving the basic techniques for the study of... -
The Rotation of the Earth: A Geophysical Discussion by Walter H. Munk 9780521104067
RRP: £55.99£50.24This book gives an account of certain observed irregularities on the rotation of the Earth, both in its rate of rotation (giving a variable length of day) and in the position of its axis. These irregularities are caused by events on and within the Earth... -
Inverse Methods in Physical Oceanography by Andrew F. Bennett 9780521055284
RRP: £53.99£48.48Observations of ocean circulation have increased as a result of international field programmes and of remote sensing systems on artificial earth satellites. Oceanographers are increasingly turning to inverse methods for combining these observations with... -
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics by Sudhakar Nair 9780521875622
RRP: £61.99£54.40This textbook treats solids and fluids in a balanced manner, using thermodynamic restrictions on the relation between applied forces and material responses. This unified approach can be appreciated by engineers, physicists, and applied mathematicians... -
Elastic Waves at High Frequencies: Techniques for Radiation and Diffraction of Elastic and Surface Waves by John G. Harris 9780521875301
RRP: £111.00£94.80John G. Harris intended to explain in this book the special techniques required to model the radiation and diffraction of elastic and surface waves. Sadly, he died before he could fulfil this ambition, but his plan has been brought to fruition by a team... -
Benard Cells and Taylor Vortices by E.L. Koschmieder 9780521402040
RRP: £129.00£88.30This book describes the research done on the problems of Benard convection, as well as its modern offspring the Rayleigh-Benard problem, and Taylor vortices. Benard convection differs from Rayleigh-Benard convection by the presence of surface tension,... -
Fluid Flow Phenomena: A Numerical Toolkit by Paolo Orlandi 9780792360957
RRP: £175.50£68.62This book deals with the simulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for laminar and turbulent flows. The book is limited to explaining and employing the finite difference method. It furnishes a large number of source codes which permit to... -
Conduit Fluid Flow by Douglass H. May 9781418440589
£33.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781418440589Author Douglass H. MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 333g -
Evolution of Phase Transitions: A Continuum Theory by Rohan Abeyaratne 9780521661478
RRP: £125.00£93.23This 2006 work began with the author's exploration of the applicability of the finite deformation theory of elasticity when various standard assumptions such as convexity of various energies or ellipticity of the field equations of equilibrium are... -
Sound Transmission through a Fluctuating Ocean by Stanley M. Flatte 9780521142458
RRP: £36.99£25.45The ocean is transparent to sound where slight irregularities within the ocean cause sound fluctuations, and thus set limits on the many uses of sound in the ocean, similar to the limits imposed by the atmosphere on ground-based telescopes. This 1979... -
The Mathematical Theory of Turbulence by M.M. Stanisic 9780387966854
£45.37"I do not think at all that I am able to present here any procedure of investiga tion that was not perceived long ago by all men of talent; and I do not promise at all that you can find here anything_ quite new of this kind. But I shall take pains... -
Theory of Solidification by Stephen H. Davis 9780521650809
RRP: £129.00£96.19The processes of freezing and melting were present at the beginnings of the Earth and continue to dominate the natural and industrial worlds. The solidification of a liquid or the melting of a solid involves a complex interplay of many physical effects... -
Laminar Viscous Flow by V.N. Constantinescu 9780387945286
£45.37Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline born of the needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound issues of productivity... -
Inviscid Fluid Flows by Hilary Ockendon 9780387908243
£91.48Applied Mathematics is the art of constructing mathematical models of observed phenomena so that both qualitative and quantitative results can be predicted by the use of analytical and numerical methods. Theoretical Mechanics is concerned with the study... -
Turbulent Reactive Flows by R. Borghi 9780387968872
£46.57Turbulent reactive flows are of common occurrance in combustion engineering, chemical reactor technology and various types of engines producing power and thrust utilizing chemical and nuclear fuels. Pollutant formation and dispersion in the atmospheric... -
Linear Water Waves: A Mathematical Approach by N. Kuznetsov 9780521808538
RRP: £141.00£92.24This book gives a self-contained and up-to-date account of mathematical results in the linear theory of water waves. The study of waves has many applications, including the prediction of behavior of floating bodies (ships, submarines, tension-leg... -
The Physics and Mathematics of Adiabatic Shear Bands by T.W. Wright 9780521631952
RRP: £111.00£68.23This book is a research monograph on the material instability known as adiabatic shear banding which often occurs in a plastically deforming material as it undergoes rapid shearing. Plastic deformation generates heat, which eventually softens most... -
Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals by Agnes Buka 9780387946047
£90.27In the last 20 years the study of nonlinear nonequilibrium phenomena in spa tially extended systems, with particular emphasis on pattern-forming phenomena, has been one of the very active areas in physics, exhibiting interesting ramifi cations into other... -
Navier-Stokes Equations in Irregular Domains by L. Stupelis 9780792335092
£90.87The analytical basis of Navier-Stokes Equations in Irregular Domains is formed by coercive estimates, which enable proofs to be given of the solvability of the boundary value problems for Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations in weighted Sobolev and Hoelder... -
Flow, Deformation and Fracture: Lectures on Fluid Mechanics and the Mechanics of Deformable Solids for Mathematicians and Physicists by Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt 9780521887526
RRP: £134.00£80.43Over forty years of teaching experience are distilled into this text. The guiding principle is the wide use of the concept of intermediate asymptotics, which enables the natural introduction of the modeling of real bodies by continua. Beginning with a... -
Studies of Vortex Dominated Flows: Proceedings of the Symposium on Vortex Dominated Flows Held July 9-11, 1985, at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia by M. Y. Hussaini 9780387964300
RRP: £89.99£89.87From the astrophysical scale of a swirling spiral galaxy, through the geophysical scale of a hurricane, down to the subatomic scale of elementary particles, vortical motion and vortex dynamics have played a profound role in our understanding of the... -
The Excitation and Propagation of Elastic Waves by J. A. Hudson 9780521318679
RRP: £36.99£21.89This paperback edition of Dr Hudson's advanced textbook presents the theory of small disturbances propagating through solids. The material is set out carefully in mathematical detail. The linearised theory of elasticity has now been replaced by a more...